Quote Originally Posted by brownsd54 View Post

?Add to that the historical reality that all great empires?the Persians, the Trojans, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, and in later years, the British?all rose and perished within 240 years.


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just thought I'd point out that of that group the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Roman empires all lasted much longer than 240 years.